Clear the calendar and maybe iron the latex: Oz Kink Fest 2026 returns for a 19th year this October.
Billed as Australia’s premier festival of fetish, freedom and expression, Oz Kink Fest 2026 runs from 8 to 18 October across a clutch of inner-city Melbourne venues. The box office is open, and there’s plenty packed into the 10 days beyond a single headline night.
The run takes in launch parties, a sprawling expo, a fashion runway, workshops and a couple of the festival’s best-known club nights. Here’s how the diary shapes up.
Oz Kink Fest 2026
- 8 October — Oz Kink Fest Launch Party
- 10 October — Fetish Expo, with the fashion show catwalk at 4pm
- 10 October — Fetish Expo After Party
- 11 October — The Oz Kink Fest Munch
- Guest presenter workshops — mid-festival (see note below)
- 16 October — Hellfire Resurrection, Chasers Nightclub, 386 Chapel Street, South Yarra
- 17 October — Klub Kunst
- 17–18 October — Weekend Workshop Intensives
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The Fetish Expo is the festival’s daytime centrepiece on 10 October, a high-traffic floor of stalls, products and curiosities. Its fashion show hands the runway to bold design and strong concepts from across the community, with the catwalk locked in for 4pm.
After dark, the marquee club nights do the heavy lifting. Hellfire Resurrection takes over Chasers Nightclub in South Yarra on 16 October behind a strict fetish dress code, then Klub Kunst keeps things moving on 17 October as the festival heads into its final weekend.
Around those, the program runs to an opening launch party, the more low-key Oz Kink Fest Munch, guest presenter workshops through the middle stretch and weekend intensives to round it all out. Expressions of interest are open too, with spots going for performers, fashion designers, workshop presenters and Fetish Expo stallholders.
Tickets are on sale through the box office now. The code okf2026 shaves 10% off all Oz Kink Fest tickets until the end of June, so anyone moving early lands a better deal than the latecomers.
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